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Post by thesemenincident on Feb 20, 2006 3:52:14 GMT -5
I have no idea what you would call one of these but are these sold anywhere/could they easily be made from scratch?:
It is supposed to be a multiple audio-in panel connecting to a single audio-out port. The only reason I would use this is because I don't really own any equipment to hook up to (like amps) and with this I assume I can just put audio jacks from my hardware into the splitter and to have all the audio go out the single port and into the PA System or soundboard. I worry that it will sound horrid... but you know... What else could I do? I am not exactly doing 'clean sounding' music anyways...
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Post by johningram on Feb 20, 2006 11:33:22 GMT -5
its called a "mixer", what you've described. you could build a passive mixer like you've described, only adding a pot between each input and the output so that you can adjust the output volume of individual inputs.
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Post by futureimage on Feb 20, 2006 12:50:15 GMT -5
its called a "mixer", what you've described. you could build a passive mixer like you've described, only adding a pot between each input and the output so that you can adjust the output volume of individual inputs. Nope, i tried that and i just fucked up. |
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Post by johningram on Feb 20, 2006 16:06:59 GMT -5
it works, I've seen them before. there was something in your architecture that you overlooked.
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Post by johningram on Feb 20, 2006 16:10:00 GMT -5
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Post by thesemenincident on Feb 20, 2006 17:37:16 GMT -5
hey thanks a lot for the info. I will *try* to make one... hmm... 'it's a mixer' Yeah, I guess I should have known that... haha. I was thinking of names like 'audio splitter hubs' and shit... I didn't know what else you'd call it. I think I can make one of those. Perhaps I can find some tips online for making one.
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Post by thesemenincident on Feb 20, 2006 17:39:59 GMT -5
An afterthought: Along side the volume knobs, do you think I would be able to put pitch knobs?
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Post by johningram on Feb 20, 2006 18:02:49 GMT -5
not with any relative ease. you'd have to have a pitchshifting circuit built into the unit and process all the audio as it runs through. at that point it would be a multiple-input pitchshifter with variable output volume for the inputs.
not to say its impossible, but its no easy feat and likely wouldn't produce the results you desire. if you could get your hands on an old pitchshifter pedal you could gut it and rehouse the pedal, adding more inputs, but then the pitchshifting would occur on all inputs simultaneously, not individually. unless you also build a true bypass for each input, but that still wouldn't allow you to control the effect independently for each input channel.
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Post by futureimage on Feb 21, 2006 2:31:29 GMT -5
An afterthought: Along side the volume knobs, do you think I would be able to put pitch knobs? Or, if you want a "speed up/down" circuit, you could build a small lo-quality short-time sampler into each channel. |
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Post by thesemenincident on Feb 21, 2006 16:22:01 GMT -5
Thanks for the suggestions. I figure I will just try to add pitch controls on the devices themselves and only control volume... It'd be a lot easier... I think I may get to start on this today. I am possibliy going to Radioshack today.
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Post by thesemenincident on Feb 28, 2006 1:44:43 GMT -5
its called a "mixer", what you've described. you could build a passive mixer like you've described, only adding a pot between each input and the output so that you can adjust the output volume of individual inputs. Nope, i tried that and i just fucked up. Yeah, I'm having some problems too... like... when i ad the pot i get no signal from the out end... hmm... maybe I am just stupid and don't know how to install a pot? |
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Post by thesemenincident on Feb 28, 2006 1:51:27 GMT -5
I just looked here: www.nirvis.com/mixers.htm and the first one looks like the way i did it but I used 1k pots, not 2k... that seems to be the only difference though. |
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Post by futureimage on Feb 28, 2006 2:23:40 GMT -5
I have trouble knowing what value of pot to use. I can't get over it!!!!
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